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John Rush

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
891 total appearances

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

No one really bought it. Return rates were kind of high. But it was because the pitch was, this is going to be on par with your iPhone. And that's just too tall of an order. And I think just making it fun and niche and unique. I love the fact that I have Obviously, the phone on the camera is great, but I love getting camera gear still.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

I like a Sony camera that's opinionated around this one little thing. It only does this one thing really well. And I love that. But those niches are getting slimmer and slimmer as the phone just does more and more. So I'd love to see some more stuff break through.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

I like a Sony camera that's opinionated around this one little thing. It only does this one thing really well. And I love that. But those niches are getting slimmer and slimmer as the phone just does more and more. So I'd love to see some more stuff break through.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

I like a Sony camera that's opinionated around this one little thing. It only does this one thing really well. And I love that. But those niches are getting slimmer and slimmer as the phone just does more and more. So I'd love to see some more stuff break through.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

Yeah, totally. I mean, I think back to the old Max that had the colored clear plastic on the back. What a crazy design. It's so cool. I think that's kind of making a comeback. Zuck announced some glasses that were clear, which is really cool that you can see the internals. And I think Palmer Luckey's new company, Mod Retro, has a clear Game Boy design that's really cool. But yeah, it's...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

Yeah, totally. I mean, I think back to the old Max that had the colored clear plastic on the back. What a crazy design. It's so cool. I think that's kind of making a comeback. Zuck announced some glasses that were clear, which is really cool that you can see the internals. And I think Palmer Luckey's new company, Mod Retro, has a clear Game Boy design that's really cool. But yeah, it's...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

Yeah, totally. I mean, I think back to the old Max that had the colored clear plastic on the back. What a crazy design. It's so cool. I think that's kind of making a comeback. Zuck announced some glasses that were clear, which is really cool that you can see the internals. And I think Palmer Luckey's new company, Mod Retro, has a clear Game Boy design that's really cool. But yeah, it's...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

It's tricky. It feels like we're on the cusp of something breaking through, but it is tricky.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

It's tricky. It feels like we're on the cusp of something breaking through, but it is tricky.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

It's tricky. It feels like we're on the cusp of something breaking through, but it is tricky.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

Yeah. And it just is differentiated. Like it's, it's going to be hard to compete with apple on just like the clean, perfect industrial design. And people are going to nitpick that they're going to say, Oh, the tolerances aren't that good. Well, it's like, yeah, because like you didn't have the resources to like mill a unibody, like aluminum thing.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

Yeah. And it just is differentiated. Like it's, it's going to be hard to compete with apple on just like the clean, perfect industrial design. And people are going to nitpick that they're going to say, Oh, the tolerances aren't that good. Well, it's like, yeah, because like you didn't have the resources to like mill a unibody, like aluminum thing.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

Yeah. And it just is differentiated. Like it's, it's going to be hard to compete with apple on just like the clean, perfect industrial design. And people are going to nitpick that they're going to say, Oh, the tolerances aren't that good. Well, it's like, yeah, because like you didn't have the resources to like mill a unibody, like aluminum thing.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

Like it's like insane or like however they made this out of titanium. Like that's insane. Like have some fun with it, do something weird. And even if it's like bigger or sort of, you know, sacrifices on some sort of vector, like battery life or durability or whatever, like just be upfront about that. And I think, I think consumers will embrace it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

Like it's like insane or like however they made this out of titanium. Like that's insane. Like have some fun with it, do something weird. And even if it's like bigger or sort of, you know, sacrifices on some sort of vector, like battery life or durability or whatever, like just be upfront about that. And I think, I think consumers will embrace it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

Like it's like insane or like however they made this out of titanium. Like that's insane. Like have some fun with it, do something weird. And even if it's like bigger or sort of, you know, sacrifices on some sort of vector, like battery life or durability or whatever, like just be upfront about that. And I think, I think consumers will embrace it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

Okay, yeah. So last night, as we're recording this, we're recording this on Friday. Last night, Elon Musk presented a Tesla update called WeRobot, where he announced the CyberCab, which is their unsupervised, full self-driving rideshare network and some new vehicles. And There he also had a number of humanoid robots on display. I think the working name is Optimus.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

Okay, yeah. So last night, as we're recording this, we're recording this on Friday. Last night, Elon Musk presented a Tesla update called WeRobot, where he announced the CyberCab, which is their unsupervised, full self-driving rideshare network and some new vehicles. And There he also had a number of humanoid robots on display. I think the working name is Optimus.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

Okay, yeah. So last night, as we're recording this, we're recording this on Friday. Last night, Elon Musk presented a Tesla update called WeRobot, where he announced the CyberCab, which is their unsupervised, full self-driving rideshare network and some new vehicles. And There he also had a number of humanoid robots on display. I think the working name is Optimus.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

And there's been a number of these humanoid robotics companies. There's a bit of a boom now. I think everyone's expecting that a lot of the work that was done in large language models and ChatGPT to kind of flow downward towards humanoid robots, where you could just talk to a humanoid robot and tell it to go do your laundry and it'll just do it. Now, at this moment,